M: How are your new neighbors, Nancy?
W: They seem nice enough, but they have a son who's driving me crazy.
M: What do you mean?
W: [ 12 ] He comes home every night around 10 with his car windows rolled down and radio blaring. [ 13] It stops as soon as he turns the car off. But by then Brian and Lisa are wide awake.
M: Oh, no.
W: Oh, yes. Sometimes it takes us till midnight just to get them settle down again.
M: Have you tried talking to them?
W: [ 14 ] We haven't even really met them except to say a quick hello. I hate to get off on the wrong foot.
M: You are not going to like them when you do meet them if you keep on simmering.
W: I know, but I feel stupid complaining. It's not as though he's blasting his stereo all night.
M: You said yourself it is driving you crazy.
W: Well, you know how early I have to get up to be here at the office. I'm just not getting enough sleep and neither are the kids. They're so irritable when I get home in the afternoon.
M: [ 15 ] Maybe you could go over sometime with a little gift: a plant for the yard or something. Then you could ask about their son, whether they have any other children and they'll be sure to ask about yours.
W: Yeah, and then what?
M: Then you could mention that the hardest thing at this stage is getting your kids to get sleep at night.
W: And keeping them in the sleep.
M: That's the idea, and you should do it soon. The longer you wait, the harder it'll be to do politely.
What bothers Nancy about her neighbor' s son?
【听前预测】
1．两项以he开头，两项以his开头。
2．三项含有too，三项含有与声音大有关的词汇(wakes …up，loudly，noisy）。
结论：本题可能与某位男士制造噪音有关。
【解析】对话中女士提到，邻居家的儿子每晚10点左右才回家，并且总是开着车窗大声地播放着收音机。当他关闭汽车发动机的时候噪音会停止，但到那个时候她的两个孩子都已经被吵醒了。故选B。